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As I continue digging down into my box of retro games and activities, I’d like to share with you another great game from my youth — Dark Tower. Dark Tower (Milton Bradley, 1981) was another one of those early electronic board games that included a battery operated device that players would use to play the game. In this case, it was the Dark Tower itself, a spinning monstrosity that sat in the center of the game board. When I say spinning, I mean that — inside is a number of spinning drums that would light up 3 windows that would tell a short story about the current player’s actions. A window might light up a found treasure such as a sword or a Pegasus (useful for an immediate jump to another location on the board) or even a wizard’s curse that can be used against another player to steal 1/4 of his or her gold and warriors.